Yep, I did 21 mins of walking, in the cool breezy night with lightening dancing across the sky, alone listening to the Second Peter Pan book by Dave Barry. Exciting! Now I’m gonna go die :-p
Here’s to the first walk of my journey to weight loss!
Hmm not quite thrilled at the moment
So this is hard for me to do – I’ve decided to recommit myself to Weight Watchers and to really truly try and lose all this horrid weight that I’ve gained. I have never in my life been this heavy and it’s so depressing that I had at one point managed to lose 20 lbs to get to 170, but now I’m 30 lbs heavier and mad at myself. I have all these great clothes and dresses that I want to wear but I can’t, I’m stuck wearing the clothes that stretch so I can breathe – how gross. and I’ve been trying these past two weeks to exercise more and each better but it hasn’t helped. So I’ve given in, and I”m doing weight watchers again. I truly want to lose 10 lbs, so I can get a new pair of shoes (thanks to my MIL – we both have to lose it…and she’s actually lost some of it!) But I think I can do it – I’m going to keep track of everything, walk 3 x’s a week and exercise on the elliptical 2 x’s. PLEASE if you read this, please please please yell at me and make me accountable to you, whoever you are! I want to be 25 lbs lighter for my 25th birthday, hell I’ll even take 10 lbs lighter, but August is just around the corner and I need some person to just yell at me or encourage me when I’m around. So with that being said, I think I’m going to go for a walk, husband or not (I”m actually listening to a great book…)
Here’s to losing the first lb. – I CAN and WILL do it!
Best part of my previous week…
I know it’s late but I have to share this story. So I was visiting Kari, Jarrett and Seth for a quick moment and was holding seth – I was gently bouncing him and then patted him on the back and the little s#!t vomitted down my dress, no not ON my dress, DOWN my dress. Eww but at the same time pretty funny.
I am hardcore jonesing for a wii fit but no one freaking has one!!! If you see one, buy it for me, mail it to me and I’ll give you a check for $100.00 – but it has to be new. Don’t want to smell other ppls feets when I do my YoGa.
Work rocks – I really really really reallllllly! Like it! I think someone should videotape me this next week as I overhaul the children’s side of the library – for serious!
I also think our country is overrun with morons. Like those ppl who believe anything Fox spNews says…Ohh you say Obama is a muslim terrorist? That’s exactly why our law enforcement ppls thought it would be better for him to attempt to run the USA then send him to gitmo. Right….. Seriously ppl, please remove your heads from your a$$es and educate yourselves! Do you even know what stories are on the front page of the newspaper (I mean like a wallstreet journal or something more global) Do you know where Iraq is on the map? Do you know the different branches of the government and what they do (and better yet, why the patriot act cripples the government that has done a decent job of keeping us safe??) ugh It really boils my blood for people to spout ignorant “truths” and be damn near willing to die for those “truths” Yet they won’t pick up a real book, or newspaper, or even history book to educate themselves.
/end rant
So that’s about it – I have 3 baby things to make for 3 lucky ppl…2 in October and 1 in ?? (after october thank goodness!)
Oh I forgot to share my truly favorite story of this past week! Since matthew and I celebrated 2 yrs of marriage…we had decided not to exchange gifts (we’ve made some pretty pricy purchases that probably would have been gifts if we had been more patient, alas…) so I got matthew a pretty sweet cake shaped EXACTLY like the Red wings logo (I think blogged this before, with the intent of a picture to be posted but I am a slacker and have failed to do such) but the cake was for us, so not really a gift. I gave him a card and that was all. I get home from girls night around 9 and matthew sooo slyly requests that I go upstairs to the movie shelves and find “A white dvd, near the Aquateen hunger force, but oh shoot, I forgot the name” So i go look and see a little white case with “Happy Anniversary Gift” on the spine. I take it out and he wrote me a lovely letter that I will treasure always. Then I opened it and inside was Indiana Jones Lego Adventure game for the wii! He has also deemed this something we cannot play without each other so of course we’ve been playing it all week long 😛 Seriously I love this kid.
Alright that’s really it. Good night folks!
Anna
Wow, it’s been a while….
So I know I’ve been away for a while, things have just been busy and I haven’t been able to bring myself to type, when I spent so much time thinking “I should really do something with my time” but now that I’m doing something with 40 hours of my time each week, I feel entitled to freely post online, without fear that I’m being lazy – damnit I’m allowed a post or two a week! 😛
Enough with that – Let me catch you up with my life, in reverse chronological order:
Tomorrow, June 9, is Matthew and My’s 2nd anniversary – wooohooo! Can I tell you a huge pet peeve?? When people find out we’ve only been married for 2 years and they say “Oh that’s not very long” because YES it is very long, we’ve been dating for SEVEN years ppl! Just b/c we didn’t tie the knot a year after we met doesn’t mean we don’t know each other. Ugh, that’s a huge pet peeve – but I think Matthew feels the same way, so that makes me feel better. We’re kinda celebrating right now, but not like last year (10 Geocaches in one day….insane!) I gave him his gift, well our gift, a Red Wings shaped and decorated cake – it’s freakin sweeeet! When I upload the pics (which could be next month) I’ll let you know. If you want to know the cake maker let me know – she does awesome stuff!!!
This past week has been my first week of work as a Children’s Librarian, an official one! It’s been a good week!!! I reallly like the place, the people, the kids, even the location (which is 50 mins from home) I think it’s going to be a great place to work and make name for myself and summer Reading Program has kicked off so we have a lot of people in the library – loads of fun!
Along with the new job I got a new car – a 2007 Dodge Caliber – his name is Dewey and he’s muy sexy
I got him with 4000 miles on him and now he has 8000 – he’s getting old fast 😛 but I love him so!
I’ve been to a slew of weddings these past few weeks and have a few more to go to next month – I’m looking forward them.
Well I think that’s all for now – been nice to tell you all what I’ve been up to and that I haven’t died or anything crazy like that…just been way busy and now I think I need a nap 😛
Ciao! Anna
yes we can
Sooo I just got done watching this video – http://www.yeswecansong.com and I’m so in awe of Obama right now. Forgive me but I’m going to c&p somthing i entered into another discussion b/c I think it full sums up my feels about this song and candidate.
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Having watched the video a few times I have to say it does have an effect on me. I’ve been on the fence about the two candidates and now I feel more compelled to Obama, not only b/c of this video but it did empower me. His speech was very powerful, but, for me, having it put to music with people singing along makes it even more powerful. I guess it’s b/c I’ve been a college student for too long, but listening to speeches just makes me drown out whoever I’m listening to – I hate debates and talks b/c the language can lose me and most time people go off on tangents that the question is never answered. This video takes a particularly excellent part of his speech, put its to music, add people who also felt moved by his speech and creates an amazing video of which I can listen and reflect more fully.
And while I haven’t fully investigated Obama or Hillary, just the fact that this video/ his speech can inspire so many people to want change gives me hope – We need a leader who will speak to the nation and will inspire us to stand up and say Yes we can! Because it is not the President who will change America – it is AMERICANS – how are we going to change America if we don’t stand up and take ownership of this nation – – and that’s where I feel this video/his speech empowers me – to feel like we have a fighting chance at change. I can’t tell you how depressed I’ve been these past few years with bush in office – I have not had any hope that our country would be standing at the end of 8 years. Now, I’m reminded that the way to change our country is to unify and fight for a change…
So yes, I would say this video changed me, empowered me, made me proud to be an American who wanted to make our country proud.
Still….
…. Waiting
When I know something, you’ll know something, till then keep your fingers crossed.
Whoa! 2008!
So it’s 2008 and I have started the year of with a bang!
1) I put in my two weeks notice for the daycare – I still don’t have another job but it’s time – I’m ready to move on and really focus on things that need my focus. I have some bitterness towards this leaving for many reasons but I’m trying to be as nice as possible. If you want details give me a call.
2) Matthew and I found a great bargain at Sofa Express – they are going bankrupt and we found a great bedroom set really cheap – so we now have a real bedroom set, two nightstands, a queen bed with head and foot boards, dresser with mirror, and a chest of drawers. We even got nice lamps for the bedside and the dresser. I’ll put in pictures and you can check them out yourself!
3) I think this year I’m going to try and sell my crocheted stuff. So I’m taking orders. I’m also going to make at least one child’s sized sweaters.
4) I guess another resolution is to try and keep the laundry washed and folded without having piles of it. More over I want to keep the bedroom looking nice and pretty. Hell I might even make the bed EVERYDAY! eh, once a week will be enough.
Alright that’s it for now, I need to go switch the laundry and clean up and get to the stores soon. I’ll post again this week (yell at me if I don’t!)
Finished!
Yay! I got one more thing done! I got Kate’s scarf done today – it’s pretty freaking long and warm and it matches the hat I made her (well in yarn at least). Now I have to figure out what I’m going to make Samantha, my goddaughter. I’ve got two yarns that I’d love to use to make her somethign but i’m not sure if a hat would be appropriate b/c she lives in florida, but when you live there it does get cold (and the yarn I have is light and airy…) so we’ll see.
So here’s the hat I made:
And the Scarf I just finished:
IN other news, I’ve been sick, fighting with Bronchitis and trying to get enough sleep….it’s a vicious battle. Most of my x-mas shopping is done – I’m so excited for x-mas b/c my family will be up here and we had snow the other day and it’s the holidays!
Here’s a pic of our holiday lights with snow on the ground! We have 2 penguins, 3 twig lights, bunches of strands, icicle lights over the garage and swag lights over the porch! Matthew did a great job decorating!!
Okay that’s it for now, nap time!
Awesome!
Soo in the yarncraft podcast I had heard about something called Ravelry.com and it sounded really neat, but when I went to the page they were/are only in beta so I had to sign up for the “please invite me” list. Welllll when I got on vacation I was surprised to find out that I HAD been invited!!! I’m sooo excited and I’ve been playing with that just as much as I’ve been spending time with family, okay maybe more time online :-P. This site is like the myspace/facebook of crocheter’s and knitters! It’s really awesome! I can put my works in progress (WIP’s), things I’ve finished, my stash of yarn, etc….they also have groups and forums so I can talk to people who know what I’m dealing/talking about! It’s almost as good as having a group of needle-ists!
Also I’m going to try and put in a video of Nikki playing guitar hero – we finally got it for the wii and totally love it – I even got Kate to get it so we can play long distance when she moves to Mass.
Other things in my life – we went to the Georgia aquarium and had a great time! We even did the behind the scenes and it was super cool. I’ve also decided to do a scrapbook of our aquarium adventures! I think that would be fun ~ we’ve been to sooooo many!
Matthew and I are doing well… I think we definitely needed a vacation, but now I don’t want to go back to work – just let me sleep, crochet and eat all day and I’d be as happy as a lark.
Alright that’s it for now, I’ll ttyl!
Peace, Anna
Sweet Yo!
I was on a podcast! I called in and left a voice mail about something they talked about in the previous podcast and they used my VM on the air – how cool! I’m like a superstar or something 😛 j/k. Alright lots to do before the trip – listen to the podcast here: http://cdn.libsyn.com/yarncraft/yarncraft03.mp3
And visit the blog at: http://yarncraft.lionbrand.com/
Ciao!
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